Category Archives: Space Arts

Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts

Artist Stephan Martiniere talks about space and sci-fi art

Noted artist Stephan Martiniere gave an interesting presentation at the recent Starship Congress event in Dallas about the movies, artists and illustrators who drew  him towards science fiction and space art as he was growing up, about how he developed his skills and techniques, who his major influences were, and about the movie and animation projects he is working on today: Space Art – Youtube.

Martiniere’s talk was followed by the awarding of prizes for some excellent “speed sketch” works created during the conference by some of the attendees:  FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch Award & Auction – Youtube.

Space Arts

Revolutions: a Canadian space art exhbition + Space art on Canadian bodies

The Canadian Space Society is sponsoring at space art exhibition: Revolutions: The Inexorable Evolution of Art

Revolutions: The Inexorable Evolution of Art is a space art exhibition examining how space exploration and related technologies are being used to transform art and culture, and inspire a new generation of innovators. Representing the works of over 50 internationally acclaimed space artists, Revolutions will feature a variety of space artworks including art derived from space technologies, art designed for microgravity environments, orbital art, and art inspired by space developments.

Slated to tour nationally, the CSS is debuting Revolutions on September 12th with a star studded benefit event at Endeavor Arts Gallery in Calgary. Proceeds from this event will go to the Alberta Arts Flood Rebuild initiative in support of artists and arts communities who were affected by the 2013 floods.

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And a Canadian artist will depict scenes of the earth taken from the ISS in an unusual type of canvas:  Artist to Recreate Astronaut’s Space Photos as Body Art – Space.com

Solar Sci-Fi, Space Arts, Space films and videos

Science fiction short films at Anthology Film Archives in NYC, Aug. 28th

An announcement from the The Philip K. Dick Film Festival:

Science Fiction Comes To Anthology Film Archives As The
Special Program For Newfilmmakers Series

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival’s Director Curated The Highly Anticipated One-Night Only Event

Brooklyn, N.Y. August 13, 2013 – A night science fiction will be presented at Anthology Film Archives as part of the center’s NewFilmmakers series. Daniel Abella, the famed director of The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival led the curation for the momentous special program to be held on Wednesday, August 28. The one-night only lineup features four thrilling film shorts from the minds of talented filmmakers who showcase the infinite world of science fiction.

Special Program Schedule of Events
Wednesday, August 28 at 6:00 PM

SILENT THREAT: PRELUDE
By Aldo Romero
(2013, 15 Minutes)
A former reporter who came across a Roswell-type wreckage of a space craft in 1986 joins the social media site “Silent Threat” dedicated to UFO abductees to spread his message of extraterrestrial existence after years of censorship.

THE EXIT ROOM
By Todd Wiseman Jr.
(2013, 10 Minutes)
In 2021, imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces government execution as he contemplates a desperate escape attempt in order to return to his wife and newborn.

MICROTIME
By Nir Yaniv
(2013, 15 Minutes)
Bernie Eckstein, a young physics PhD student is about to test the time machine he built out of the microwave oven in his kitchen. He sets a camera to document the experiment but the machine begins to jump into the future and he must stop it before things go too far.

THE HOUSE
By Marcia Goetsch
(2013, 15 Minutes)
A woman and an artificially intelligent house are shackled by their symbiotic relationship in world of the future.

The science fiction special program will lead an entire night of films as part of Anthology Film Archive’s NewFilmmakers series on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 beginning at 6pm. For more information including further scheduling and film listings please visit http://anthologyfilmarchives.org and always be sure to stay informed of all ongoing announcements from The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ThePhilipKDickFilmFestival and Twitter page at https://twitter.com/PhilipKDickFest.

For more information please contact:
Daniel Abella, Curator/Festival Director
Program Office: 917-362-9337
Email: info@thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com

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Space Arts, Space books, Space Music

“Rocket Boys: the Musical” – on stage in West Virginia

I’ve posted here several times over the years about Rocket Boys the Musical, which is based on Homer Hickam‘s famous Rocket Boys book (later the movie October Skys) about his building and flying rockets as a youth in a small coal mining town in the post-Sputnik period. The musical still hasn’t made it to Broadway but it seems to be a regular production in West Virginia: ‘Rocket Boys’ set to begin run Thursday –  The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

It will play August 15-25 at the Theater West Virginia – Cliffside Amphitheatre.  More at Rocket Boys: The Musical – Cliffside Amphitheatre

Find portions of the music here.

 

 

Space Arts, Space Systems

Satellite going to space with pop-art whimsy

The Scottish based company Clyde Space will be launching their first Cubesat in the near future. To highlight this milestone, they asked LA based artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White to create some artwork decoration. They took up the challenge and decided to engraved the side of the spacecraft so that it looks like “an oversized electrical charging device” : World’s first pop-art satellite headed to space – AP/Yahoo!.

“If someone is going to invade our planet, presumably they’re going to come in some sort of electronic, electricity-powered ship,” Gibson notes whimsically. “Maybe this will make them stop for a moment and say, ‘These guys are nice. We’re not going to destroy their planet.'”

This short video shows off the satellite side panel created by Gibson/White:

This is definitely not the first artwork to go into space, however. See the HobbySpace Art in Space section for several examples of art sent to space and created in space.